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Small Business Grants and Loans for Women

June 16, 2011 by Tushar Mathur with 471 views

If you’re a woman who is looking to start a business and you have both a great idea and a comprehensive plan, but find yourself woefully lacking in funds, then you’ll be happy to hear that there are a lot of resources out there geared at helping you get your enterprise off the ground. [read more]

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Cash and Liquidity Management for SMEs

December 1, 2010 by Jim Daddario with 854 views

With the global economy in a protracted funk, SMEs must take measures to ensure they have the resources to weather the crisis. To make matters more complicated, banks are still reluctant to lend to SMEs, forcing many companies to rely on their commercial cash flows for liquidity. While the depth and length of the economic crisis is... [read more]

How IT analyst firms can learn from investment bank research pricing models

May 5, 2010 by Ross Dawson with 203 views

Gideon Gartner has just posted a great article titled Advisory Industry, a future redesign: the “Payment” Model, in which he draws on investment banking research pricing as a model for IT analysts and their clients. Gideon writes: So in the Wall Street model The buy-side “analysts” will work closely with their most helpful and favorite... [read more]

Mastering the VC Game

May 3, 2010 by Brad Feld with 207 views

Over the years, I’ve occasionally thought about writing a book about how venture capital actually works.  I no longer have to contemplate doing this as Jeff Bussgang has nailed it with his book Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start-up to IPO on YOUR Terms.  If you are an entrepreneur... [read more]

Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted

May 2, 2010 by Chris Dixon with 246 views

If the U.S. economy were a company, the VC industry would be the R&D department. The financing for the VC industry comes from so-called LPs (Limited Partners) – mostly university endowments, pension funds, family funds, and funds-of-funds. These LPs wield tremendous power, yet very few of them understand how startups or venture... [read more]

Investing in SaaS Ventures (Part 5): The 5 Cs of SaaS Finance

April 13, 2010 by Joey Lo with 450 views

  This is the final installment of our series on Investing in SaaS Ventures. Which was born from a question and suggestion from a dear reader, Taliba M. Taliba is a new angel investor who’s ready to make her second investment. She wants to place a bet on a SaaS startup but feels that she can’t make an informed decision due to her... [read more]

Facing up to financial facts: 3 steps to focus your priorities

April 9, 2010 by Editor Bloggertone with 192 views

As a business woman I have a matter-of-fact approach to finance. If you want to make a profit you need to have more money coming in then going out. You need to make sure that you are not losing a significant amount of money on a large aspect of your business, and that you have a broad spread of customers to supply you with a regular... [read more]

A VC's View on Why Startups Fail

May 29, 2008 by Brad Feld with 142 views

David Feinleib at Mohr Davidow Ventures has today's great post up titled Why Startups Fail.  Given all the consumer web stuff that got funded between 2004 and 2006, we are heading for another wave of failure as companies run out of gas after their Series B / Series C rounds and their investors lose patience with them.  In... [read more]

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